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The Spanish usage in Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. have many variants as well. [14] Unintended humor can happen when the translation criterion is merely a linguistic one without taking into account the users of the translation, e.g. the English word unit (apartment) mean very different things in Chinese regional ...
Eutrapelia comes from the Greek for "wittiness" (Ancient Greek: εὐτραπελία, romanized: eutrapelia) and refers to pleasantness in conversation, with ease and a good sense of humor. It is one of Aristotle's virtues , being the "golden mean" between boorishness ( ἀγροικία ) and buffoonery ( βωμολοχία ).
The word humor is a translation of Greek χυμός, [3] chymos (literally 'juice' or 'sap', metaphorically 'flavor'). Early texts on Indian Ayurveda medicine presented a theory of three or four humors (doṣas), [4] [5] which they sometimes linked with the five elements (pañca-bhūta): earth, water, fire, air, and space. [6]
The joke also appears in the Spanish poem Reír Llorando [45] ("Laughing While Crying") by the late 19th century Mexican poet Juan de Dios Peza. [46] The poem tells of an English actor called Garrick that a doctor recommends to his patient as the only cure for his loss of interest in life, whereupon the patient reveals that he indeed is Garrick.
An Anatomy of Humor, 1993, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0494-8; Blind Men and Elephants: Perspectives on Humor, 1995, Transaction Publishers; The Art of Comedy Writing, 1997, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 1-56000-324-3; Peter L. Berger (1997) Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience, Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 3-11-015562-1
In his book Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach, [38] the anthropologist Mahadev Apte presents a solid case for his own academic perspective. [103] "Two axioms underlie my discussion, namely, that humor is by and large culture based and that humor can be a major conceptual and methodological tool for gaining insights into cultural ...
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The adjective "comic" (Greek κωμικός kōmikós), which strictly means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage, generally confined to the sense of "laughter-provoking". [5] Of this, the word came into modern usage through the Latin comoedia and Italian commedia and has, over time, passed through various shades of meaning. [6]